Perhaps appropriate on a day when the RPS server is visibly bulging as the Endless Bear shakes at its shackles, I’ve been playing a webgame that’s undergoing similar growing pains. It’s – the not safe for work, I stress – Forumwarz. I’d heard the name mentioned, but a thread at the ever-lovin’ Quarter to Three made me jump in. It’s a web game about the web, basically. That is, an RPG where instead of getting experience points for killing monsters, you get it by owning threads on forums.
Assuming you’ve got the sort of impervious shield of irony that may in bad light look like sociopathy, there’s more than a few kicks here. And – face it – with the evolved chitin of cynicism that covers pretty much all of us, that’s probably everyone.
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